Commonality and Specificity of Acupuncture Point Selections

Figure 1

(a) Probabilities of each acupoint in the 10 cases. Acupoint probability was calculated as the frequency of the acupoint prescribed for the designated case divided by the total number of prescribed acupoints among the 30 most acupoints. (b) The z-score heatmap for each acupoint in the 10 cases. The z-score was calculated by subtracting the probability of the acupoint prescribed for the designated case from the mean of the prescribed acupoints for all cases and then dividing by the standard deviation of the probability of prescribed acupoints for all cases. The 30 most frequently prescribed acupoints are on the x-axis and the 10 cases are on the y-axis. represents Z > 1.96.

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